Dave Morse wrote: > > I'm working with a lot of small grayscale images with transparency. The > grey-on-grey checkerboard that gimp displays for "transparent" pixels > camoflauges the actual image pixels almost perfectly, making things hard > to work with. Is there a preference somewhere to set the transparent-bg > to some tiled image? If so I would go for all red, or something. Go into preferences->Display. I see the options of: Transparency type: light checks, mid-tone checks, dark checks, white only, grey only, black only Check Size: small, medium, large Don't see an option for your 'red', but maybe one of the above will work. > > I can create a new layer of 100% red, put it under the image, and delete > it when done, but alas, I've got so many images that the time for doing > that for each is prohibitive. > > --Dave > > _______________________________________________ > Gimp-user mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user -- Until later: Geoffrey [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Great spirits have always found violent opposition from mediocre minds. The latter cannot understand it when a man does not thoughtlessly submit to hereditary prejudices but honestly and courageously uses his intelligence." - Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ Gimp-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.xcf.berkeley.edu/mailman/listinfo/gimp-user